Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Patrick Glenn

Winner of the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law

Provides an overview of major legal institutions and principles in each tradition facilitating understanding of law in a broader context

Provides a comprehensive treatment of major legal traditions of the world and incorporates a superb level of scholarship and analysis

Adopts a genuinely global perspective making it an invaluable resource for courses worldwide

Includes extensive references and web links at the end of each chapter, to aid and encourage further research

New to this Edition:

Includes use of legal tradition as explanatory device in different areas of law

Covers increasing recognition of chthonic legal tradition

Reflects increasing anti-corruption activity

Includes recent writing on neuroscience and law

Rejects the concept of nation-state in favor of that of the cosmopolitan state

Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Fifth Edition

Patrick Glenn

Description

Legal Traditions of the World places national laws in the broader context of major legal traditions, those of chthonic (or indigenous) law, talmudic law, civil law, Islamic law, common law, Hindu law and Confucian law. Each tradition is examined in terms of its institutions and substantive law, its founding concepts and methods, its attitude towards the concept of change and its teaching on relations with other traditions and peoples. The concept of legal tradition is explained as non-conflict in character and compatible with new and inclusive forms of logic.

Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Fifth Edition

Patrick Glenn

Table of Contents

1: A theory of tradition? The changing presence of the past2: Between traditions: identity, persuasion and survival3: A chthonic legal tradition: to recycle the world4: A talmudic legal tradition: the perfect author5: A civil law tradition: the centrality of the person6: An islamic legal tradition: the law of the later revelation7: A common law tradition: the ethic of adjudication8: A hindu legal tradition: the law as king, but which law?9: A confucian legal tradition: make it new (with Marx?)10: Reconciling legal traditions: sustainable diversity in law

Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Fifth Edition

Patrick Glenn

Author Information

Professor Glenn teaches and has research interests in the areas of comparative law, private international law, civil procedure and the legal professions. He is a former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the International Academy of Comparative Law and has been a Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Law, a Killam Research Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Legal Traditions of the World

Sustainable Diversity in Law

Fifth Edition

Patrick Glenn

Reviews and Awards

"firmly based in social theory and history... thought provoking and stimulating " - Times Higher Education

"Illuminating and ground breaking work " - Stellenbosch Law Review

"Glenn has succeeded magnificently " - Cambridge Law Journal

"An opus extra ordinem " - European Review of Private Law

"dense, theoretical yet accesible chapters... its sheer academic brilliance cannot be denied" - Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law